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and there are alot of people around who have TB (tiny bladder)
:rofl:

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Or "on a course" (of antibiotics??)

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Going for a Jimmy (riddle) or a Tom (tit) works round these parts

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That's better than "perder aceite". ;)

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When I worked as a PA I used to say I told lies for a living, whether it was to irate people my boss didn't want to speak to, people who hadn't been paid (the cheque's in the post) or his wife, about where he was and who he was with. One boss used to "entertain" his bits on the side in his office after working hours, and one of them once had the brass neck to ring me up and ask if I'd found an article of clothing she thought she'd left behind. I said I'd check, and politely enquired whether, if found, she would like me to send it to her office or home address (she was married too!).

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Sounds like an episode of Mad Men!

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The Spanish slang is mear (or around here 'hecharse una meá'). I'm told it comes from the Latin (meio, meiere, minxi, minctum: from which, the rarely used British and Spanish micturate or micturar). Orinar, obviously...
I was once confused in a bar when asking for the lavatory. Por allí I was told. There were two doors, unlabeled. So I came back and asked the barman which one I should use. 'Whichever one you like', he answered rather sensibly.

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Just the once Mrs Wembley ? ?

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A lad I worked with always used to say he was going to squeeze his head. I never got that one. :huh:

The only one I have heard in Spain is
"voy a visitar la roca"

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Just read this thread and there are some really funny ones.

My children always said the "doing a whoopsie" like Frank Spencer, and I had a boss who took the newspaper with him when he "had a private call from Mr Brown".

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Gotta go and water the horse.

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At the perfect moment this one's quoted...

I discovered the hard way what that one meant when an old farmer friend who was at our place nipped off down the paddock and went behind a shed. Being an inquisitive 9 or 10 year old I thought 'horse, what horse, must see'................ and nearly saw more than I ought!!


It was the splashing gave the game away :ohmy::o

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Must be an old Farmers thingy then.;)
Wonder what the Spanish equivalent is, Agua para El Burro ?

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A country neighbour of ours - well they all are, we live in the campo:rofl: disappeared off our terrace towards his car saying something which was potentially interesting to join him in.. maybe something to do with trees or grafting, it usually is! ... . I went to follow him but was told I'd better not, he was actually going for a slash. But it wasn't water the mule, that's for sure. (Slash... that's another UK one)

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Fiona...You really have to stop "following" people;):rofl: